Seagram Building, NYC - Mies van der Rohe &
Philip Johnson 1958

By the 1930s the "International Style" as identified
by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock had emerged as the new expression
of the “tall building” or skyscraper. Clean, sparse, and devoid
of ornament, the forms of the new materials and their structural frames become
the aesthetic for the middle years of the twentieth century. It reaches its
apotheosis in Mies van der Rohe’s and Philip Johnson’s Seagrams
Building in New York in 1958, considered the crown jewel of the International
Style.